Headscarves!

This was supposed to be a post about a pair of wide-leg jeans I'm making, but the zip just broke and now I Hate Them. So here are some headscarves instead.

I really like this look but I didn't just want a rectangle or triangle of fabric wrapped around my head. After trying out some pleats and gathers I've settled on this design. It's a rectangle, with a centre pleat or fold, and attached tie ends. 

The pleat means there isn't a heap of fabric bunched up around the knot, which is specifically what I wanted to avoid. 

 

These photos were taken in a hot sewing room so my hair is getting more and more frizzy as these photos go on.

So far I've made a few, and I have a heap of leftover fabric to make more. I also want to make some with long tie ends, to wear more as a headband with the ties hanging down, and some in silkier fabric.

I'm thinking of selling these but I'm not sure what the interest in them would be. If anyone has any suggestions for design or fabric I would love to hear them.

My eyebrows and other first world problems

So I wrote a post all about my two year anniversary of blogging, made sure people knew I was still around and then promptly disappeared from Blog Land. 

Way to guarantee my continued online presence.

I've been thinking about blogging a lot lately, whilst not actually doing it, and I really want to get back into it. I had various reasons for stopping for a while, one of them being I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my blog. It was always, dress this, skirt that, sew some things, here are some photos. Same old same old. I wanted people to read my blog and was really just focusing on trying to make it interesting for other people.

So now I'm getting back on track, fer realz this time, and I'm going to make this blog more interesting for myself. There will be more written/less visual posts, a bit of sewing, more daily life happenings. General self-absorbed natterings.

And things I'm just thinking about lately.

1. Eyebrows

Here are my eyebrows.

 

Now that I'm wearing my hair in a longer fringe, my eyebrows are covered up and I haven't been maintaining them as much as usual. They're thickening up and I'm wondering what to do with them.

Part of me wants to wax them right off and draw them on every day.

Jay draws on her eyebrows and they look quite nice.

Here are some other eyebrows I like.

I also really like 1920's/1930's style brows.

2. And I'm wondering if I should change my fringe. It's gothier to have it shorter, but when it's long I can (inexpertly) curl it up, which I like.

Yes, it's Katy Perry. I want this hair.

3. Tattoos. I have some tattoos on my left forearm, and I've always vaguely planned to turn it into a sleeve.  (I am scratched from pulling sticky weed out of the garden the other day)

 

 There is a long blank patch of arm which I've so far considered covering with a fairy, based on a pin up girl or show girl, a dragon, some flowers on a vine/branch, or a couple of mice playing on a toadstool. I can't remember where I found all these, I saved them ages ago.

 

 4. CHRISTMAS. I do love Christmas. Here is my little tree. 

I have yet to decide on a Christmas dress style/fabric this year... not sure if I will actually get around to making one, but I will try.

I will also try to catch up on other blog reading this week.

And hooray... first blog post in months :)

Australian adverts 1889 - 1975

1889 - 1900

 

   

 

1902 - 1913

1914 - 1919

1920 - 1927

 

1928 - 1933

1934 - 1938

 

1939 - 1945

 

1946 - 1954

 1955 - 1975

 These adverts and photographs are all taken from Social Sketches of Australia by Humphrey McQueen (link to ABE books). Jay found a copy and gave it to me knowing I love all things "old." Unfortunately the ads grow fewer and fewer throughout the later decades (1950's - 1970's).

I'd like to try the rust proof corsets and Preservene soap, thanks! (No toil!)

Happy Sunday.